Resolution of Respect for Paul A. Keddy 1953–2023: Ecologist, Conservationist, Naturalist
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Abstract
A. Keddy peacefully passed away at his home in Carleton Place, Ontario on December 26, 2023.He will forever be regarded for his seminal contributions to wetland ecology (Keddy 2023), ecological competition (Keddy 2001), and plant ecology (Keddy 2017).His creativity and innovation advanced our conceptual understanding of plant community assembly, and he dedicated his career to applying scientific principles to the sustainable management of natural landscapes and to the conservation of species that call these landscapes home.Norm Cyril Keddy and Dorothy Jean Keddy brought their son Paul Anthony Keddy into the world in 1953 in London, Ontario.From a very early age, Paul never hesitated to get his feet wet, whether he was conducting science fair projects on turtle conservation, observing salamanders and frogs in his beloved wetlands, or paddling down the Mississippi River on a plywood canoe.Paul's time working as a naturalist at the Algonquin Park Museum for three summers from 1971 to 1973 cemented his desire to study the natural world and to protect it (Fig. 1A).Paul studied biology (1974) at York University and obtained his Ph.D. in plant ecology (1978) from Dalhousie University under the mathematical ecologist E.C. Pielou.He served as an assistant professor at the University of Guelph (1978Guelph ( -1982)), as an associate and full professor at the University of Ottawa (1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999), and as a professor and Schlieder Endowed Chair for Environmental Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University (1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007).Paul constructed one of the greatest experimental, fully replicated natural marsh facilities in the world, an ecological equivalent of the radio telescope, in coastal Louisiana (Fig. 2A).The research was
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.021 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".